camera roll
Americannoun
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a folder on a smartphone containing all the photographs, screenshots, and videos taken on that device.
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a roll of film for use in a camera; film roll.
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There are almost as many error-message screenshots in my camera roll as there are of the food and seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Mojica visits Arturo Calderón, a local rodeo clown known as “La Pirinola,” who performs in drag; Calderón lets the camera roll as he paints his eyelids electric blue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Nowadays, everything we take videos of is immediately buried in our camera roll, beneath screenshots of recipes and photos of suspicious moles.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024
Unless you automatically backed up all your Instagram Stories to your phone’s camera roll, you were out of luck.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2024
Karl Schneider held up a photo of Amanda from his phone’s camera roll on Wednesday morning, from a trip they had taken together two years ago in Texas.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
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